{"product_id":"a-tender-age-chang-rae-lee-9781398562950","title":"A Tender Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the coming-of-age novel. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDevastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away - then thinking about it for the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chang-rae Lee","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50705094476019,"sku":"9781398562950","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781398562950.jpg?v=1788206564","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/a-tender-age-chang-rae-lee-9781398562950","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}